YouTube Fast Fullscreen Toggle

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Avoid the lag when entering/exiting fullscreen on a YouTube video - by hiding the heavy fluff while transitioning

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Description from store There's an annoying lag period when entering/exiting fullscreen on a YouTube video. On my machine, it's normally ~2 seconds; but with a large playlist expanded, it gets up to ~3 seconds. This extension reduces the transition time to almost nothing. Supported fullscreen transitions: - Clicking the fullscreen button - Pressing the F key - Double-clicking the video Unsupported fullscreen transitions (still slow): - Escape - F11 Note that Firefox doesn't seem to have the same issue as Chrome; so in Firefox the improvement is barely noticeable. In Vivaldi, there is unfortunately an intermediate step in the fullscreen transition, which I can't seem to do anything to avoid. It appears to be due to the toolbars being hidden/shown at a different moment to when the browser actually enters/leaves fullscreen. Technical detail: This bug's been present for years now, and I got so sick of it that I spent one night experimenting to find a way to avoid it - and I found one! The extra HTML content on the page (playlist, recommendations, comments, description, likes, etc.) is pretty heavy, and when you toggle fullscreen, YouTube moves it around in the DOM, which ends up incuring a fair bit of processing. I've worked out that it's significantly faster to hide that extra content before transitioning, then display it again afterwards once it's reached its new position.

Latest reviews

(2023-10-19) Le creeper arboricole: linux
(2023-10-05) Sellers: Works great!
(2023-07-05) Bryan: massive improvement thanks!
(2023-05-10) Pierre “Ridou” Brunet: Still slow
(2023-05-02) Maximiliano Kreckler: Muy buena solucion .Uso Vivaldi , el tiempo se acorto de 2 segundos a 1 segundo.Gracias.
(2022-08-18) Cyprian: AWESOME
(2022-07-16) MuFa5a: Hope OP is ok (almost a year no updates) -Queue list not supported. (After making a list and play, need to refresh F5 to works)
(2022-06-14) Ɲσιѕєc: Much faster
(2022-05-30) Dani Cute: WOW! I didn't think it would work but it did. I have no idea why Youtube is so slow and can't do what this extension does. Well, it's expected since they lasted 100 years to implement a dark mode.
(2022-05-15) John Doe: GENIUS !!!!!! THANKS YOU FOR THIS GIFT ;)
(2022-04-24) Mula deseis2000: Esta extensión solucionó para mí el problema, uso Vivaldi. Muchas gracias y espero que sirva a todos los que usan este tipo de extensiones de Chrome.
(2022-04-21) Michal Vurm: Does what it says.
(2022-04-10) Henri-Louis: Very impressive, thanks!
(2022-04-08) Prateek Dahiya: Yes , It works. reduces resizing video time to negligible.
(2022-03-26) Curtis J.: It works!
(2022-03-12) Tyler: Epic programming skills. Provides a MASSIVE difference on my decently high end system (I7 8700k overclocked, RTX 2060 Super) Before around 2 seconds, sometimes 3 seconds on big playlists pages. Now 0.5 seconds. It's still not the the instant it used to be back in the good ol flash days, but massively better. Thanks man.
(2022-02-27) Adarsh Nair: It works better than the default transition but sometimes shows a grey bar for a few seconds on the player where the media controls (pause, volume slider, timer) are. Sometimes the transition gets slowed down when there's multiple tabs on chrome and takes around 3 to 5 seconds. Please fix this issue. Other than that, there's no issues and it works great! Thanks for this extension!
(2022-02-24) chunkymonkey: works perfect on Chrome 98.0.4758.102. is WAY faster now.
(2022-02-19) lorenzo checcarelli: I have an i7 11700K and rtx 3080 ti, 32gb RAM DDR4 4000Mhz CL16. And it works only once every 30 times ahahahah. The Youtube site is badly optimized, this extension is even worse. Do not download it, It works only when it want ahahah. The developer is even worst than google ones.
(2022-02-16) DarkYuan (DarkYuan): Totally better than default! From up to a 6 second lag to less than 1 second. Not as fast as Firefox though, but I can live with this so long as I can stay on Chrome.
(2022-02-13) LockHändle: works.
(2021-12-21) Angelo Ruocco: THANK-YOU!
(2021-12-10) He nz: very nice extension reduced the delay tp 1 second... theres still 0.5 delay though, also, is there any way I can implement this or is there any extension that can make it work on all html video with fullscreen... so i can remove all the delay when i view a <video> on fullscreen
(2021-11-28) Arpit Pandey: Writing a review for the first time This extension deserves it
(2021-11-26) John Freeman: Works perfectly; unbelievable that something so simple requires an extension but so glad you bothered to make it!
(2021-11-18) Simon: Excellent..
(2021-10-18) Alex: Let me tell you that you just fixed probably the second most annoying thing from Youtube, the first one is the ads. I've been waiting for this moment for years, and I'm not kidding, I even sent feedback for years to Youtube, but they just don't care. Big big big big thank you!!!
(2021-10-15) Mehmet Demircan: Why is this only have so few downloads. I have been experiencing annoying lag for years and the fix was this simple..
(2021-10-09) mate gamer: i love this it works on other sites than yt
(2021-10-03) Sinba: Tested on Edge, works like a charm. You're a genius!
(2021-09-27) Duc Le: GOOD! Thank you
(2021-09-22) dungrobinhut: work great,but recently facing issue,when toggle fullscreen have a white scroll line in the right screen,i uninstall this extension and the issue gone,reinstall extension have issue again,please fix it,thank you very much,sorry about my bad english!
(2021-08-23) amirul hazreen: This is more like it. It feel way faster than before
(2021-08-12) Johnatan Machado: So useful. Thank you!
(2021-08-04) Zso fika: Sudden change, it feels so fast now. Tested on Edge. Thank you!
(2021-08-01) Sascha: Danach habe ich gesucht.
(2021-07-27) yusuf emir kaçmaz: nice work 👏
(2021-07-16) Stack Overflow: Love it.
(2021-07-16) Matias Vera: Ahora youtube se pone en pantalla completa mucho más rápido! Muchas gracias!! +5 😃
(2021-07-09) DrHitman27: Faster, but slow and laggy on older pc anyway.
(2021-06-27) Farrukh Javaid: Finally an extension that actually makes difference. On switching to full screen lag reduced from 3 secs to 1 sec. But when i go back from Full to normal window it still takes 2-3 seconds. Anyway, Thanks for your efforts.
(2021-06-15) Dollarnator77: Super! Can't life whitout this extenion any more, before it took so long, to get into fullscreen! 5 STARS
(2021-06-10) Caked memes: I always wanted to fix that but didn't know there was an extension for it cause it doesn't pop up on google. It makes it 3-4 times faster and 6-8 times less annoying, thank you.
(2021-05-24) Inflatable microwave: Was looking for something like this. It works splendidly with enhancer for youtube. Glad I looked. Thank you so much!
(2021-05-21) fact tact ask: very gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood !!!!!!!!!!! very helpful incrediable work !!!!!!!!!!!
(2021-05-01) GODZILLA KONG: still buggy
(2021-04-25) plastic vork: Works great with Brave! Switched back to chromium from firefox because of this working so well.
(2021-04-07) Zuneg: Great extension that will save you some nerves. Works as advertised. Vivaldi: 3.7.2218.52 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
(2021-03-31) Luân Đ. Huỳnh: This actually works. Tested on Edge. The animation using the "F" key is slightly faster than clicking the full screen button. Roughly 0.2s I guess. Thanks for making this awesome extension. Updated: Performance greatly improved with Hardware Acceleration disabled.
(2021-03-15) Peter Henkel: It still isn't as smooth as in Firefox, but still lightyears better.

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